The subscription fun for the dependents of the victims soon reached the sum of £1,300. I agree that the matter of the design, construction and use of trailing cables is one requiring further investigation, and suggest that as soon as circumstances permit a Committee should be set up for this purpose, on which cable makers, electrical experts and managers should be represented. Sometime later the possibility of re-opening the pit was looked into. 1938 No. The workings went to the Nine Foot Barnsley Seam and extended a mile north from the shafts which was one hundred and eighty feet deep. And we also desire that Mr. Badger, the Coroner, report to Sir George Grey, and that we make it known that Her Majesty’s Government, that we think it is advisable that they should appoint a scientific and practical person, to occasionally inspect the collieries in this district and see that here is proper ventilation, and hear any complaint by the workpeople employed therein. He then went to Linley the blacksmith to get Lawton who was at Swaith and he told Solomon Morley that the pit was on fire. Ventilation. Mr. Harvey had suggested to Dawson the possibility (which he accepted) that at some point in the cable a conductor had begun to break and one of the wires forming the conductor had penetrated the insulation and touched another live conductor, and in answer to Mr. Furniss the chief electrician said, "Having regard to all the circumstances, the broken conductor theory appears to me to offer the more reasonable explanation". Wilson appears to have received his burns when entering the tailgate, possibly by flame passing through a break into the gate, but on this there was no definite evidence. The first shaft at the Oaks Colliery was sunk in the early 1830s. The resistance of the live conductors and of the earth conductor was in each case the same, viz. His teams were equipped with all the latest equipment, and were well aware of all the latest improvements in the methods used. The gradient on "B" face was intermediate between the gradients in the experiments and the speed of the air was no more than 50 feet per minute; firedamp could therefore have readily travelled up the roof of "B" face as suggested. When he was at the pit bottom he saw Lawton and told him that he had ordered nothing but safety lamps to be used. On the 10th February an inspection of this district was made by Mr. E. Netherwood (Inspector for the Yorkshire Mines Safety Board) and the late Mr. G. Martin and they reported as follows :—. Benjamin Hoyland was one of the men and it was about 1 p.m. the he saw Pickering brought up in a corve with three other men. The Beaumont family had connections through marriage to the Wentworth family and both families had members with the knowledge required. Core samples could now be taken (but not guaranteed) to provided details on the depth, thickness, and quality of each seam. The mine was examined after the disaster by many of the eminent mining engineers of the day. The method of ventilation adopted on "B" face was strongly criticised, chiefly on the ground that of the total quantity of air entering the district only about 20 per cent. That is quite an achievement when compared with the accident rates in the 1850s. of Worsborough Common who was single. * Report of the Royal Commission on Safety In Coal Mines. He went down the pit for a third time about 2.30 with Mr. Maddison Guest and others. William Fisher miner He knew that Lawton was worried about the condition of the dip bordgates. All the banks to the rise of the level had been exhausted with only pillars left to support the roads until the coal in the dip banks was worked and this was the work that was going on at the time of the disaster. The company were seen as one of the best in their field with a lot of experience in sinking the deeper shafts required to access the higher quality seams.The senior partner of the company was a Mr George Pearson, who lived in the Pontefract suburb of Tanshelf. When Messrs Beaumont, King, and Woodhouse opted to sink a new colliery in Wombwell. The Darley Main Colliery was in Worborough Dale about a mile south east of Barnsley and two miles from the Oaks Colliery. The coal gave off a large quantity of gas and all the men had Davy lamps but the shot lit a blower of gas which set fire to the coal and blew down a portion of the brattice in the air course. He arrived at the dip bordgates about 1 am. The downcast shaft was converted to upcast with a furnace at its foot… It was estimated that t. would provide the colliery with around 50 years of production. After hearing the evidence and the CoronerÕs summing up, the jury returned the verdict: We find a verdict of Accidental Death on the seventy five bodies we have viewed caused by one or more explosions of carbureted hydrogen gas or inflammable air, which took pace on the 24th. William Davy. What they didn't know was that the thick band of Melton Field Rock was water bearing strata. Of the 62 fortunately only 12 (all on the intake side) lost their lives, of whom four were officials. Mr. Nichols Wood of Hetton and Mr. Birham, viewer to Earl Fitzwilliam had been summond by the Coroner to examine the workings. 6. Colliery closures Full list of the collieries which have closed since March 1984 when the miners' strike began. Walsh and Bailey, young men who from time to time worked at the rise end of the face, gave evidence that they had on a number of occasions smelt gas there, that "bagging" (a term used for a compressed air pipe) was used to blow it out, and that the collier who worked there had once been overcome by gas and carried out. That some flame traversed the three wastes is established by the fact of fires having been started in them, and it may be that Wood received his burns in the way suggested; alternatively, the flame which passed up the face may have received a further supply of firedamp from the face. In a paper by Dr. Coward (Trans. George Ogley. This observation also applies to the ventilation records referred to on page 5. They took refuge and the blast blew down nearly all the coal but gas was ignited. Robert Watson. At the inquest the jury met for four  days and heard thirty witnesses. By 1931 Barnsley Main Colliery had expanded further, taking over Oaks Colliery whose pit head was just to the south east (now redeveloped as an industrial estate). of Worsborough Common who was married with two children. It was contended by the miners' representatives that in addition to the external examination by the machine man some further test should be applied by an electrician at the beginning of each shift, and the chief electrician said. He and his son made an ineffectual attempt to build a brick stopping at the Swaith Level but they were driven back by the smoke and flames from the burning seam below. He was at the time quite satisfied with the ventilation. The mode of blasting with powder the jury see as highly injudicious and dangerous and feel that it should not have been allowed by the underground viewer or prosecuted by workmen. Allen commenced drilling and when the hole was fired Johnson fired the shot. Barnsley Main Colliery; Cononley Lead Mine; Elsecar New Colliery; Hemingfield Colliery; Sovereign Collieries; Westfield Pit; Rockley Engine House; Photos Shropshire. Robert Hough. This face started away as a single unit face about 80 yards long but, because of the fault coming on to the right (which though shown on plan as only 1½ feet, was taken as a leader to one of about 30 yards known to be in front) and a pillar for surface support having to be left on the left side, the face was extended to a double unit of 140 yards and changed direction as the plan shows. No systematic efforts were made to warn the men underground or to send them out of the pit. The blast passed over him, licking him with flames which burnt off his clothes and hair and left him almost dead. In the opinion of the chief electrician the cable broke down either between two conductors on a single phase fault, or on a three phase fault, because if a piece of wire had penetrated the cable (as Dawson suggested might possibly have happened) it must have cleared the screen before making contact with the live conductor, since, had it remained in contact with the outer screen while in contact with the live conductor the earth leakage trip would definitely have come out. In the business plan reference was made to the fact that Edward had some isolated plots of land. It was important to secure the mining rights from the other land owners because it would extend the collieries take by some distance.Leases were eventually signed, and the collieries take was extended out to the Lundhill Fault on the eastern boundary, and the Edderthorpe fault along its northern boundary. He found it strange that the horses were not in the least damaged. It is not possible to say definitely what was burning in the gob behind the fall; if in fact small coal and/or timber was still smouldering there the erection of the brattice sheet across the entrance might have the effect of fanning up the combustion. In consequence of these two factors, it was asserted, the death roll was greater than it need have been. Professor Statham had carried out a series of experiments with a cable of similar type to that in question, and produced photographs showing the resulting flash and sparks when a piece of wire was pushed into the cable to short-circuit the cores and a current passed through. It was important to secure the mining rights from the other land owners because it would extend the collieries take by some distance. He was a “fire-triers” or fireman at the colliery where he had worked for five years went down the pit on Sunday midnight. of Worsborough Common who was single. The foreman then handed the following recommendations to the coroner and hoped that they would be forwarded to the Home Secretary: We are of the opinion that a regular inspection of mines by government takes place, accidents will be of a frequent nature in collieries in this neighbourhood. If flame did, in fact, pass through the stopping it proceeded very little farther outbye. He was at work in the south levels on the morning of the 6th.

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